| 词条 | Melanie Kent Steinhardt |
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| bgcolour = #6495ED | name = Melanie Kent Steinhardt | birth_date = May 26, 1899 | birth_place = Lemberg, Poland | death_date = January 17, 1952 | death_place = Los Angeles, United States | resting_place_coordinates = | movement = Expressionism }} Melanie Kent Steinhardt (May 26, 1899 – January 17, 1952) was a Bohemian American painter, printmaker, and ceramicist. Early yearsKent Steinhardt was born in the town of Lemberg, Poland (currently Lvov, Ukraine), which was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. She and her parents, Leopold and Isabella Heller (née Blaustein) were secular Jews. The artist was raised in her father's hometown, Saaz, Bohemia (currently, Zatec, Czech Republic), in the hops-growing region west of Prague. As a teenager, she attended the Kunstgewerbeschule (an arts and crafts school) in Vienna, Austria. In the summer of 1921, in nearby Marienbad (currently Marianski Lasne, Czech Republic), the Heller family encountered a Bavarian merchant, Fritz Steinhardt, who profoundly altered the lives of the Heller family. First marriageFritz Steinhardt ultimately became Mela's husband, and moved Mela, then 23, to Berlin, Germany, where for a privileged decade, she honed her painting techniques with distinguished professors, such as Willi Jaekel, at the Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen (Union of Berlin Women Artists' School). One month prior to the birth of her first child, Melanie's mother and sister were asphyxiated due to a faulty gas line in their apartment Fritz Steinhardt's hometown, Fürth, Bavaria. Fritz and Melanie Steinhardt raised two children, Edith (born 1923) and Gerhart (born 1925). Ultimately, the Steinhardts' marriage failed, and the artist was banished from the family's Dahlem, Berlin home. During the period of ten years, from 1923 to 1933, the painter signed her works Mela Steinhardt. Second marriageIn 1933, Melanie Steinhardt married Alfred Kent, a Viennese attorney. They lived for several years at Villa Freiberg in Zell am See, Austria, in the house presented to Melanie by Fritz Steinhardt on their honeymoon in 1923. EmigrationShadowing her children across Europe, and ultimately to the United States, Melanie and Alfred Kent made their way from New York City to Hollywood in 1943. By the end of World War II, the artist returned to painting and etching. The couple moved to Inglewood, California in 1946. CeramicsMela manufactured handmade ceramic tableware under the brand Kent Handmade, which she initially glazed and fired in the Kent's garage in Inglewood. From 1948 until her death, Kent Steinhardt owned and operated the Home Decorators Hobby Shop on Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles. She produced and taught ceramics, painting, sewing, and crafts. Expressionist art"Kent Steinhardt’s compositions, portraits and landscapes blend European Expressionism with an émigré’s troubled impressions" of her new American life.[1] Much of the work Kent Steinhardt created in her final years depict complex existential themes, reminiscent of the work of post-World War 1 Expressionists Käthe Kollwitz, James Ensor, Max Beckmann, and George Grosz. Mela's ten commandments, written by Melanie Kent Steinhardt, translated from German ({{circa}}1930s): {{cquote|DeathMelanie Kent Steinhardt died due to carbon monoxide poisoning in her Robertson Boulevard shop in January 1952. She was 52 years old. Her grandson Ruchard and her wife published “Mela: The Life and Art of Melanie Kent Steinhardt,” a limited edition art biography in 2002 to pay tribute to her grandmother which he had never knew.[3] Exhibition
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References1. ^Melanie Kent Steinhardt: The Life and Art of an Émigrè Retrieved on 31 Jan 2018 2. ^[https://art-gallery.santarosa.edu/content/melanie-kent-steinhardt-2/ FROM THE FOREWORD BY JOANNA WEBER TO "MELA" BY RICHARD T. HILL] Retrieved on 31 Jan 2018 3. ^[https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/6994954/ Mela : the Life and Art of Melanie Kent Steinhardt] Retrieved on 31 Jan 2018 4. ^{{cite web|title=Melanie Kent Steinhardt: The Life and Art of an Émigrè|url=http://library.sonoma.edu/about/artsandlectures/gallery/melanie-kent-steinhardt-life-and-art-%C3%A9migr%C3%A8|website=sonoma.edu|publisher=Sonoma State University|accessdate=18 October 2017}} 5. ^[https://akaaidan.wordpress.com/2006/01/31/melanie_kent_steinhardt_opens_at_ssu_library_art_gallery/ MELANIE KENT STEINHARDT OPENS AT SSU LIBRARY ART GALLERY] Retrieved on 31 Jan 2018 External links
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